Streamliner - Classic Trains Special is GREAT!

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Have bought some special editions, but often Classic Trains is drepressing.

Got the Passenger Trains issue before, but it left me feeling empty.

But Streamliners I loved, taking a while to read, hours. Like the Streamlined steam coverage, the designers, the engines, the Rock Island info, this is a real KICK @ss! issue

We sub. to Trains and MRR, and I’m a fan of the Streamliners, and the F7A/B sets, E8A/B growing up in the LA area near the SP line, Black Widow units would be dropping off or moving beef cattle at the Feedlot at Puente Ave.between 55-60 or so.

In '70, lived in Arcadia next to the ATSF tracks, saw the gleaming Budds and E8A/B sets off to Santa Fe and Chicago next to the apartment.

Never saw steam run on SP, just at the park or Knotts. Like the streamlined steam, cleans up the clutter, the last Southern is beautiful…

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I have to agree - I haven’t bought any of the special editions before, but I bought this one. Well done! Particularly in explaining the evolution from boxcab to EA to TA to E6, and in just socially revolutionary the lightweight streamlined trains were in the depressed USA of the 1930s.

Jim

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Agreed! This Special is the best, IMO, of the past 3-4 years. I’m not old enough to really remember seeing Streamliners in operation, but have haunted museums over the years admiring them.

CT has done a terrific job of getting good photographs and interesting information about the whole range of streamliner types. I am enjoying especially the articles on interurbans.

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It is a great editon of special interest. More work like that is welcome to us historical types[^][bow][bow][#ditto][tup]